Some life updates: As of October, I’ve officially transferred to URV to complete my PhD (hopefully soon!), and I’ve also started working as an Adjunct Professor at UAH. I’m really excited about both and deeply grateful to everyone who’s supported me along the way.

If experts in their fields are now using AI to read papers for them, then science has truly hit rock bottom.

Today I asked my translation students whether they thought it was fair to be paid per word when, in addition to the translation itself, the agency also profits from the translation memory (TM) that gets updated as they work. None of them thought it is normal not to be paid for updating the TM.

"AI disclosure erodes trust in the AI user." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Oh yes, postediting, that task that is sold (and paid) as a (light) revision service but is overall as demanding as a translation task. It does not sound like a good deal to me.

Hahaha you've got to love the Merriam-Webster

OpenAI, one of the most prominent AI companies in the world, just released a model trained BLATANTLY on stolen IP. It's obvious that rights are being violated, and it's also obvious that existing enforcement is not preventing these violations: they press onward. The EU must enforce its rules

"Je commencerai par reconnaître ma situation de privilège : la raison la plus immédiate pour laquelle je n’utilise pas l’IA, c’est que j’exerce mon métier de traducteur dans de bonnes conditions."

«Que los lectores sepan que existimos, que detrás de las traducciones que leen hay personas que aman los libros tanto como ellos, importa. Porque, si no se nos ve, es más fácil eliminarnos del proceso». Feliz #DíaInternacionalDeLaTraducción.

Avui, Dia Internacional de la Traducció, reivindiquem la traducció humana en un sector cada vegada més automatitzat, així com unes condicions justes. Cal ser més conscients que mai que l'associacionisme ens fa més forts i ens permet fer xarxa davant les adversitats. ✊

30 sep, Día Internacional de la Traducción: traductores en huelga en protesta por las condiciones de trabajo cada vez más precarias en las que tenemos que desarrollar nuestra actividad.

#agendaURV | Inauguració del curs acadèmic a la Facultat de Lletres, a càrrec de l’escriptora Remedios Zafra, que impartirà la conferència “Los trabajos que amamos. Sobre el entusiasmo y la transformación del trabajo creativo”. 🗓️Demà, 1/10 🕚12h 📍Aula 202 campus Catalunya 👉https://goo.su/Xj0cZUz

This is amazing news I’m so glad

¡Enhorabuena a todas! Todas las finalistas son traductorAs.

Things I had not expected to see today: Deutsche Bank making a numbers based argument that "AI" is a bubble and won't last https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry

We should stop using the term "translating" when we are talking about what automatic translation systems can do. What they do is processing texts (to try and replicate it using words from a different language). Translating is a human ability.

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In Spanish, the snack or bite you have between meals is tentempié. It literally means 'keeps you standing'. Isn't language diversity beautiful.

When they say ai is a time saver what that often means is that it’s a tool that makes it easier for you to waste someone else’s time.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

“It would be foolish to think that general-purpose AI could transform the economy with only modest political consequences,” two academics from the University of Toronto argue in a guest essay

We have it as a contract point that translations of my work have to be performed by actual humans, I think actual human readers deserve to have actual humans translating and making the works as excellent as they can be regardless of language

It never ceases to amaze me that every AI implementation on any platform seems to boil down to just two types of user interaction: stealing them, i.e., users are never asked for consent. forcing them to actively resist, i.e, users must actively fight to avoid being exploited. All deeply unethical.

'What do I do first?' As we outsource more of our skills and knowledge to AI I think this is a phrase that we will be hearing people say a lot.

Job opportunity: Two PhD Positions at Stockholm University, Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies, Sweden. Deadline for application: October 15. Link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

As a former translator, the crucial thing AI will never be able to replace is the ability to discern specific personal or cultural meaning in a person’s choice of word or phrase, and incorporate that depth and richness of meaning in the translation. This applies as much to court as it does to poems.

And to add, it has happened at lightning speed. Talented colleagues who specialize in their field have been made jobless within the past two years. Language has been handed over to big tech.

And that's really one of the biggest issues I have with AI: it trivializes everything and turns it into “content” that is “good enough,” turning everything into a worthless mush; just stuff to fill our (work)days. AI killed everyone's capacity to care about anything but the bottom line...

I occasionally do proofreading and editing for non-English organisations. Absolutely spending way more time trying to decipher AI translated nonsense that completely erases original language nuances and meaning (and assume these jobs will dry up now bc I'm costing people more). Hire translators!

There's too much I want to re-quote from this amazingly written article. Everything is frustratingly true and I wish the translators and LSPs on the slop hype the train would read it.

Many interesting testimonies about translators' working conditions going downhill in recent years are emerging around this post. Worth keeping an eye on them if you are a researcher too.

I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators. If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: [email protected]

It is in the light of the otherness that you can see yourself. That's why the vision of people who studied languages and translation is a skill that go beyond 'knowing words'.

In yet another chapter of how CAT tools were never designed with translators’ needs in mind, here we are in the year of our lord 2025 and you still need two tabs in Trados Live (one for the Online Editor and another for the termbase) just to update terms as you translate. *sigh*

#amTranslating about mass killings in Gaza. Sick to my stomach.

¿Qué recursos disponibles en línea o en papel le recomendaríais a alguien que no sabe nada de traducción editorial pero quiere hacer una propuesta para la traducción de un libro (de inglés a español)? Gracias.

Wouldn’t it be interesting for some researchers to analyse the new “Updated [Translation] Vendor Service Agreements” that have emerged in recent months, along with the current working conditions for translators and the power relations in the translation market?

Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!

🤍 @irenevalmore.bsky.social

Boycott all publishers using GenAi.

I talked to a journalist at the Geneva Solutions about the censorship i experienced at the AI for Good Summit 2 days ago genevasolutions.news/science-tech...

The example Antoine Guillemain analyzes here clearly demonstrates that neither automatic translation nor computer-assisted translation (fuzzy matches) is ever intended to aid translators, they were designed to boost intermediaries’ margins and profits. shorturl.at/PF62u

Solidarity with @abeba.bsky.social and gratitude for @meredithmeredith.bsky.social being at the right place at the right time with the ever present right attitude 💪🏻↘️

my very honest unpopular opinion is that if i have a client who thinks machine translation can do my job i don’t want to work with them either? they obviously don’t value their own product enough to care about quality so why should i

Esto me lo enseñaron en un taller de voluntariado sobre personas en riesgo de exclusión social y no se me olvidará en la vida.

It's the 2nd time in the last month I get a budget rejected as too expensive. It wasn't. It was a fair price for the work involved. Personally, I refuse to work for peanuts and would rather look elsewhere. But the ongoing pressure to lower translation rates is making it impossible to make a living.

Clients need confidentiality? Human translators here to serve.

Legal scholars in the Netherlands are calling for a total ban on the use of AI in law faculties. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

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